The celebrated Azerbaijani photographer Rena Effendi visited the 'KHINALUG' PEOPLE in their village of Kətş (Azerbaijani: Xınalıq) high up in the Caucasus mountains in Azerbaijan, where she took some beautiful portraits and many wonderful photographs.

FOUR VAINAKH (I.E. CHECHEN AND/OR INGUSH) LEGENDS—"The Hordune-Din" (the “Sea Stallion”), "The Seven Sons of the Snow-storm", "The Star of the Winds", and "Pharmat, The Blacksmith of the Country"—which I found in Mariel Tsaroieva's Anciennes Croyances des Ingouches et des Tchétchènes [“Ancient Beliefs of the Ingush and the Chechens”] (Paris: 2005).

A list of the languages of the Caucasus in the 2009 edition of the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger, and the UNESCO's six "Major Evaluative Factors of Language Vitality"—(copied from the UNESCO's Ad Hoc Expert Group on Endangered Languages' report on Language Vitality and Endangerment (PDF), document which was submitted to the International Expert Meeting on [the] UNESCO's Programme [for the] Safeguarding of Endangered Languages held in Paris in 2003).

FROM DAGHESTAN, WITH LOVE—A list of the [declared!] gifts which U.S. President Obama, his wife and family and other American politicians received from Gadzhi Makhachev, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Daghestan in Moscow, between 2006 and 2009 (and other gifts, "from Russia, with love").

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A list of the languages of the Caucasus in the 2010 edition of the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger, and the UNESCO's six "Major Evaluative Factors of Language Vitality"—(copied from the UNESCO's Ad Hoc Expert Group on Endangered Languages' report on Language Vitality and Endangerment (PDF), document which was submitted to the International Expert Meeting on [the] UNESCO's Programme [for the] Safeguarding of Endangered Languages held in Paris in 2003).

TRAGEDY IN TSOVATA—An account of what went wrong during the Batsbi festival of dadaloba in 2011.

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FIGURES FROM THE 1873 POPULATION CENSUS, as found in Dr. Gustav Radde's Die Chews'uren und ihr Land — ein monographischer Versuch untersucht im Sommer 1876. A list of the communities and villages of the Khevsur, Tush, Pshav and Kist peoples, alongside a count of the hearths and of the male and female inhabitants, based upon official figures published in 1873.

VENDETTA AND BLOOD FEUDS IN THE MANI IN SOUTHERN GREECE—copied from Patrick Leigh Fermor's Mani—Travels in the Southern Peloponnese
(London: John Murray, 1958, p. 89 onwards). Not the Caucasus, of course, but probably a good description of what blood feuds would have been like in the Caucasus long ago.

German military operations in THE CAUCASUS DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR (August 1942—January 1943)—notably the actions of the Gebirgsjäger of the German Army's elite but woefully small 1st "Edelweiß" and 4th "Enzian" Mountain Divisions.

80. (September-October 2013)

An account of Germany's OPERATIONS "HIGHLANDER" AND "SHAMIL", which called for the deployment of units largely made up of Caucasian volunteers on the German side during the Second World War.

81. (November 2013)

An extremely obscure article by Adolf Dirr on TREPANATION (i.e. drilling or cutting through someone's skull to perform a medical examination) as legal evidence in the Caucasus.

An entertaining description of a stay in TIFLIS IN THE LATE XIXth CENTURY, as written by "Wanderer" (Walter Tschudi Lyall) in his Notes from the Caucasus (London: Macmillan & Co., 1883).

85. (December 2013)

Sir Robert Ker Porter's account of his JOURNEY ACROSS THE CAUCASUS FROM VLADIKAVKAZ TO TIFLIS, undertaken in 1817 and described in his monumental Travels in Georgia, Persia, Armenia, Ancient Babylonia, &c. &c. during the years 1817, 1818, 1819 and 1820, with numerous engravings of portraits, costumes, antiquities, &c. (2 volumes, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1821-22).

A handful of UBYKH PROVERBS found in the first (1960) volume of Dumézil's Documents anatoliens sur les langues et les traditions du Caucase.

88. (January 2014)

A list of words belonging to the SECRET 'LANGUAGE OF THE CROSS' (Georgian: ჯვართ ენა, j'vart ena) copied from Tinatin Ochiauri's remarkable ქართველთა უძველესი სარწმუნოების ისტორიიდან ("From the history of the Georgians' most ancient religious beliefs"), published by the Academy of Sciences of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1954.

89. (March 2014)

A 1926 census of the inhabitants of the northern Georgian regions of KHEVI and MTIULETI, copied from two books on the regions written by the noted Georgian ethnographer Sergi Mak'alatia in the 1930s.

ECHOES OF THE CAUCASUS before the altar of Mahandeo Dur in the Kalash valley: Fosco Maraini's description and (superb) photographs of a ritual shamanistic possession among the Kalash, similar in many ways to ancient practices in the Caucasus.

A comprehensive list of all (275, at any rate) the SHRINES OF PSHAVI, KHEVSURETI AND TUSHETI, copied from the three volumes of Bardavelidze's Traditional socio-religious monuments of the mountains of Eastern Georgia (1974-1985).

THE STORY of how a Svanetian prince presented Mt Ushba (c. 4,700 m.) to Cenzi von Ficker, a young Austrian mountain-climber, following a heroic attempt to climb the mountain's southern peak in the summer of 1903.

117. (January 2017)

The quite remarkable BELFRY-CUM-WINE-CELLAR of the Cross of Lashari in Pshavi, one of the holiest highland shrines of NE Georgia.